Books with title The Ghost Tower

A Tower of Deception...Death brings some families closer, but it's ripped mine apart. I wanted to convince the police that they had the wrong suspect...but I never expected them to start suspecting me. Now, I have no choice but to keep searching for the truth, even if all my relationships fall to pieces around me.Someone is trying to make me look guilty. I never thought my mission to prove my own innocence would lead me to more family secrets. I thought I had already discovered the truth about myself. But every answer raises more questions, and everything I think I know is about to change...again.I have to find the truth, no matter how much it hurts -- before I get charged with murder.

The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He thus meets the lead soprano, Rosetta Rosa, and falls hopelessly in love with her. Alresca takes Foster under his wing and they travel to Alresca's home in Bruges. It is clear to Foster that Alresca has some strange obsession. Foster also notices a stranger who seems to be dogging his footsteps. Things take an even more sinister turn when Alresca inexplicably dies. . . Enoch Arnold Bennett was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent on the 27th May 1867. His infancy was spent in genteel poverty, which gave way to prosperity as his father succeeded as a solicitor. From this provincial background he became a novelist. His enduring fame is as a Chronicler of the Potteries towns, the setting and inspiration of some of his most famous and enduring literary work and the place where he grew up. Bennett did not pursue a career as a writer until after leaving his father's practice and moving to London in 1889 when he won a literary competition conducted by the magazine "Tit Bits". Encouraged to take up journalism full-time, he became assistant editor of "Woman" in 1894. Just over four years later his first novel, "A Man from the North", was published to critical acclaim. This was followed in 1902 by "Anna of the Five Towns", the first of a succession of stories which detailed life in the Potteries and displayed his unique vision of life in its towns. Between the end of 1903 and 1911 Bennett lived mainly in Paris. In Paris he met Marguerite Soulié whom he married in 1907. During his eight years in Paris he continued to enjoy critical success with the publication of many novels including "The Old Wives' Tale" (1908). After a visit to America in 1911, where he was acclaimed as no other visiting writer had been since Dickens, he returned to England where the "Old Wives' Tale" was reappraised and hailed to be a masterpiece. In 1921 he separated from Marguerite. The following year he fell in love with the actress Dorothy Cheston. They lived together until his death. She changed her last name to Bennett, although they were never legally married. They had one child, Virginia, born in 1926. In 1931 he became ill during a trip to France, returned to London, and died of typhoid fever. His ashes are buried in Burslem cemetery. Their daughter, Virginia Eldin, who eventually went to live in France, became President of the Arnold Bennett Society. Although Arnold Bennett never returned to the Potteries to live, he never forgot the debt which he owed to his birthplace for giving him a unique setting for so many of his novels, a setting which he enhanced with his penetrating description of people and places. (Bennett made up names for his Five Towns, but these names left nobody in doubt about the true identity of the towns. His Turnhill is really Tunstall, Bursley is Burslem, Hanbridge is Hanley, Knype is Stoke, and Longshaw is Longton.) It is perhaps unfortunate that Bennett felt that "The Five Towns" sounded better than "The Six Towns", and thus relegated the sixth town of the Potteries, the town of Fenton, almost to oblivion. As a chronicler of The Potteries he assured a permanent place in English literature for the district. His penultimate novel, The Imperial Palace, was set in the Savoy Hotel. To mark the book's importance as a great literary work, the hotel created the Omelette Arnold Bennett, which has remained on its menu ever since.

First published in 1907, The Ghost was the first of many "fantasias on modern times" written by Arnold Bennett. These illustrated his ability to produce not only realistic novels, perfected in his portrayals of provincial English life set in the Staffordshire scenery of his childhood, but also more sensational stories, written after his move to London where he developed a far more cosmopolitan interest. A supernatural story, The Ghost tells the tale of a beautiful opera star, Rosetta Rosa, whose beauty seems to cast a spell upon all those who meet her. When Carl Foster, a young doctor, sees Rosa at a London opera, and is instantly captivated, he soon finds himself plagued by mysterious happenings, and begins to see a malignant, spectral figure everywhere he turns. When another man enraptured by Rosa mysteriously dies, Carl begins to wonder whether loving her could bring with it a deadly curse. Moving between London and Paris, this fast-paced story draws the reader into a ghostly world of twists, turns, drama, and suspense.

Dark cults and shady politics are right at home in The Tower.When Adam Church checks in to The Tower to search for any hint of his missing wife, he soon learns his life will never be the same. Deciding who is with you or against you is never easy, but here the lines are so much more than blurred. Can he learn the strange rules this hotel obeys and avoid the horrors lurking inside, or will he lose everything he holds dear?Your humanity is not the only price The Tower demands when you check in.

Have you heard the legend of the Water Ghost?Harbor Talbot is in the eighth grade when he receives a mysterious box from Alcatraz. Inside, is his great grandfather’s diary, mysterious letters from a beautiful and reclusive poet, and evidence that his Grandpa Shep could be the infamous Water Ghost, a restless spirit, who haunts the lake near their small, Oklahoma town. Harbor teams up with Olivia, new to town, with a special connection to the poet.. Will they find what the Water Ghost is looking for? Or will they be pulled under, doomed to share the ghost’s watery grave...

Ellie's new case takes her far out of town to a historic but crumbling 19th-century skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. The reclusive, once-prominent family living at the top of the tower are experiencing paranormal disturbances that grow more threatening by the day. Ellie and Stacey must unravel the hidden history of the tower and the ancestors of the family who occupy it - a history full of crime, corruption, wealth, and power. With floor after floor of dark, haunted spaces, the labyrinthine, antique tower presents one of the greatest ghost-trapping challenges Ellie has ever faced.

Seneria was born to be the next Solaris, one of the two most powerful mages in the Seven Kingdoms. However, she never gets the respect she thinks she deserves. When she receives a threatening letter from the Ghost, the realm's number one mage enemy, she sees a perfect chance to prove herself. Seneria learns two things very quickly. One, being Solaris isn't as easy as she thought it would be; and two, the Ghost is nothing as simple as the rogue mage everyone assumed he was.

When the five children spot the mysterious tower in a meadow near their house, they have little idea of the fantasy adventure, alive with dragons and magic, that awaits them beyond its walls. Eager to investigate, they try knocking on the two doors that lead into it, but their adventure exploration comes to a premature end when the door refuses to open. But for the children fantasy is closer than they think. Undeterred, they seek out the advice of the old groundskeeper, Oh, to ask him what he knows about the magic faraway tower in their garden, with its knockers shaped like dragons and dragon fire. The answers Oh gives are cryptic, but they lead the children and the supernatural creatures following them into amazing adventures where dragons and magic act as guides.For the children fantasy adventure begins when they open the door to the tower. And it doesn’t end. They are led one at a time – the eldest to the youngest - to their own worlds of magic faraway from their everyday lives, where they are guided by dragon fire to an adventure exploration of their wildest dreams and greatest hopes.Set against a backdrop of what it means to grow up and follow your dreams, ‘The Tower’ tells a heart-warming tale of how important it is to not lose sight of your childhood self. Check out the LOOK INSIDE feature to be spirited away!

As summer draws to a close before the beginning of junior year, Rowyn Black is tired of seeing the Tower card stare up at her from the table. On their 16th birthday, Rowyn's kind is gifted with awesome powers. Except no, not really. Because this isn't Narnia or Hogwarts, or any other mythical realm where witches live. This is Elizabethtown, Illinois, and much to the chagrin of the local chapter of Susie-Homemakers, they live there. All witches understand that the universe is a scary sort of powerful... on a good day. And on a bad day? Well, that's when The Tower card shows its face during a reading. While Rowyn hopes that the only thing The Tower foretells is the sight of the school parking lot on the first day - full of more jacked-up trucks and cut-off shorts than a Luke Bryan video - the universe has other plans. And when the promise of The Tower comes crashing down, they all might fall right along with it.

Since the world's water supply had turned to poison six months ago, life had changed dramatically for Hurley. Even though he was only fifteen, he was forced to provide for his twin sister Miriam and his little brother Max. Finding safe water was getting harder and harder, and Hurley was getting desperate as he watched the line on the water drum sink a little lower every day.After searching further and further from his home, Hurley is forced to go into the city, a meaner and more dangerous place than his neighborhood in the suburbs. After exploring as much as he dares, Hurley decides to attack a lightly guarded water tower near the edge of the city. With his dad's muscle car, Hurley runs through the gate and past the lone guard, then steals enough water to keep his family safe for a while longer.Even as the extra water is making life seem a little more comfortable, however, a break-in at the house next door forces Hurley to realize that something has to change. Things are getting more dangerous and everyone left in his neighborhood is getting low on water. Together with his friend Rex, Hurley reluctanlty becomes a leader in a war that will decide whether his family, friends and neighbors will live or die of thirst.